Public Service Quotes - Page 4

• All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Realizing, Process

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• I just have a heart filled with gratitude for a wonderful family. My wife, Karen, is the love of my life, and she campaigned with me virtually every day of 130-some odd days of the campaign trail, as did our daughter, Charlotte, traveled all over the country with us. But my son, who just got married to his college sweetheart, and our youngest daughter - just am grateful for a family that has supported me in my calling to public service.

  Mike Pence

  Daughter, Country, Gratitude

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Knowing, Littles

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• My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

  Leon Panetta

  Dedicated, Whole Life, Has Beens

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• To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Worship Music, Church

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• I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, Politics

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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  Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Business, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.131, Penguin

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• I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

  John Adams

  Presidential, Christianity, Recommendations

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.110

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• In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Pain, Fall

  Thomas Jefferson, Newsweek, inc. Book Division (1974). “Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, Father, Space

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• Public service is my motto.

  Al Capone

  Motto, My Motto

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• The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

  Hillary Clinton

  Successful, Campaigns, Accomplished

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• Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Honor, Constructive Criticism, Expected

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• I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

  Rebel Wilson

  Intelligent, People, Looking Good

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• Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Smart, People, Congress

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• I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Devotion, Lifelong

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• When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

  Stewart Udall

  National Parks, Today, Tradition

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• A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Way, Temples, Form

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• Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Who I Am, Politician

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• Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. ... She's not the woman for the White House.

  Carly Fiorina

  Life, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• We only have what we give.

  Isabel Allende

  Helping Others, Compassion, Giving

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• I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, Bodybuilding, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Love Is, Hands

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

  William Jones

  Body, Helping, Worthwhile

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